31.  Administration officials said they were saving their lobbying effort for the Senate, where the watered-down version still faces stiff opposition, and possible defeat.

32.  After an intense lobbying effort and much legal wrangling, the project was scaled down and located downstream from the Miller plant.

33.  After that threat, Network Solutions began a full-scale lobbying effort in Washington, seeking an investigation of ICANN.

34.  After a lobbying effort, La Jolla Village Towers was exempted from the legislation.

35.  All four were intimately involved in the Olympic lobbying effort.

36.  Both business and environmental groups have begun major lobbying efforts, and environmentalists have decided to take their case to the public with the TV and radio ads.

37.  Brown managed to dodge legitimate questions about his high-priced lobbying efforts, but the stench still hovers over his private perambulations.

38.  But a group of pilots organized an intensive lobbying effort to vote it down.

39.  But a lobbying effort by Colombia persuaded the White House that Pastrana should be invited, according to officials who requested anonymity.

40.  But according to Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., what the lobbying effort lacks in moral clarity it makes up for in political necessity.